"of the story seems realistic. Greenmantle Greenmantle is the second of five novels by John Buchan featuring the character of Richard Hannay, first published in 1916 by Hodder & Stoughton, London. It is one of two Hannay novels set during the First World War, the other being ""Mr Standfast"" (1919); Hannay's first and best-known adventure, ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" (1915), is set in the period immediately preceding the war. Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world, and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to meet his friend Sandy in Constantinople. Once there, he"
"up. In the first chapter of the novel, the reader also learns of Bullivant's son Harry Bullivant, who lost his life while spying in the Middle East in the guise of a muleteer. Sir Walter Bullivant Sir Walter Bullivant is a fictional character created by the Scottish thriller writer John Buchan for his series of novels featuring the spy Richard Hannay. He plays small but significant roles in both ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" and ""Greenmantle"". Sir Walter is a senior mandarin at the Foreign Office in the years leading up to World War I. He is the archetypal spymaster — gruff,"
"Sir Walter Bullivant Sir Walter Bullivant is a fictional character created by the Scottish thriller writer John Buchan for his series of novels featuring the spy Richard Hannay. He plays small but significant roles in both ""The Thirty-Nine Steps"" and ""Greenmantle"". Sir Walter is a senior mandarin at the Foreign Office in the years leading up to World War I. He is the archetypal spymaster — gruff, acutely conscious of his duty, yet thoughtful and kindly towards those he sends into peril. In ""Greenmantle"", he recruits Hannay to perform a dangerous mission in the East as the Great Game heats"
"people. Given nothing to go on but a few mysterious clues, Hannay, assisted by friends like Sandy Arbuthnot, must track down the dastardly villains behind the plot before it's too late... It is some time after the war, and Sir Richard Hannay is living in rural tranquility, having bought Fosse Manor and married Mary Lamington (both featured in ""Mr Standfast""); they have a small son, named Peter John. Hannay's new friend, local doctor Tom Greenslade, a well-travelled and learned man, talks ominously one night of psychology, the subconscious, thrillers and post-war society. Later, Dick reads a letter from his old"
"was also a suave and ruthless spy. In combat, he is an excellent swordsman and adept at unarmed combat. A bon vivant, he also seemed to be something of an oenophile, having an impeccable palate and a love for champagne. The professional footballer, Steed Malbranque is widely reported to have been named after John Steed on account of his parents having seen their child as the epitome of Britishness. Fans of John Steed sometimes call themselves ""Steedophiles"". John Steed Major The Hon. John Wickham Gascoyne Beresford Steed usually known as John Steed, is a fictional character and the central protagonist"
"feature film of the same name. Released in 1999, the film was directed by Darabont and starred Tom Hanks as Paul Edgecombe and Michael Clarke Duncan as John Coffey. The setting is changed from 1932 to 1935 in order to include the film ""Top Hat"", which does not appear in the book. The Green Mile (novel) The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of death row supervisor Paul Edgecombe's encounter with John Coffey, an unusual inmate who displays inexplicable healing and empathetic abilities. The serial novel was originally released in"
"by the author, is a ""big fellow with a fat, sallow clean shaven face."" He also has ""a pair of full sleepy eyes"". In the last chapter of Mr Standfast (the third Hannay Novel by Buchan) Blenkiron achieves his desire to participate in ""a real high-class Armageddon"". Hannay has him inspanned as a battalion-commander in British uniform, leading the actions of a scratch American Engineer-company and other emergency troops put together in a hurry. Blenkiron and his companies successfully stem at a vital time, the strong German advance towards Amiens, and so he prevents the loss of newly-dug trench lines"
"of the small force which escorted Jan Smuts to the peace negotiations. He then disguised himself as an Afrikaans-speaking Boer, taking a job as a wagon driver working for the German colonial forces in South West Africa. This intelligence work ended unsuccessfully when he was identified, but managed to escape. This escapade later led to claims that he became the model for Richard Hannay, a character in the novels of John Buchan; Ironside was always amused by these novels when reading about ""Mr Standfast"" in the implausibly romantic setting of the passenger seat of an open-cockpit biplane flying from Iraq"
"bravery than what he would have otherwise warranted. Pienaar is awarded the VC posthumously, for his action. The reference to ""Mr Standfast"", a character from John Bunyan's ""Pilgrim's Progress"", is because Pienaar is stated as often comparing himself to that fictional character. The plot of ""The Island of Sheep"" arises from an incident in South Africa involving Hannay and Pienaar. Peter Pienaar Peter Pienaar is a character from John Buchan's series of Richard Hannay books. He is described by Hannay as being ""five foot ten, very thin and active, and as strong as a buffalo [with] pale blue eyes, a"
"Green Knight The Green Knight is a character of the 14th-century Arthurian poem ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"" and the related medieval work ""The Greene Knight"". His true name is revealed to be Bertilak de Hautdesert (an alternate spelling in some translations is ""Bercilak"" or ""Bernlak"") in ""Sir Gawain"", while ""The Greene Knight"" names him ""Bredbeddle"". The Green Knight later features as one of Arthur's greatest champions in the fragmentary ballad ""King Arthur and King Cornwall"", again with the name ""Bredbeddle"". In ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"", Bercilak is transformed into the Green Knight by Morgan le Fay,"
"the Gray Man betrays him. He leaves Henrietta and returns to Boston, leaving his wife Piper alone in Jesse Dittley's cave. The Gray Man is a hit-man hired by Greenmantle initially to steal something called the Greywaren. While in Henrietta, he takes a liking to the town and falls in love with Blue's mother Maura, who likes him back. He leaves Henrietta to protect Ronan, but returns when he discovers that Greenmantle came back. He enjoys Anglo-Saxon poetry and recites poems from memory occasionally throughout the story. Glendower is the Welsh king that allegedly save Gansey's life seven years before"
"points out that ""in patches Gally, [the novel's] real hero, acts and talks more like Lord Ickenham than himself. 'Spreading sweetness and light' is Lord Ickenham's specific role, but here, Wodehouse, seeming to forget, applies these words to Gally."" Critic J. H. C. Morris agrees, ""Gally becomes more and more like Lord Ickenham as the Blandings Saga progresses. In the later stories there is no one like him for telling the tale."" In a 1995 BBC adaptation of ""Heavy Weather"" Galahad was portrayed by Richard Briers. In the 2013 BBC series ""Blandings"" he is played by Julian Rhind-Tutt. Galahad Threepwood"
"his fiancée, Rivenhall proposes, with Sophy accepting. Sophia (Sophy) Stanton-Lacy - the eponymous heroine, 20. Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy - a diplomat, father of Sophy. Charles Rivenhall - hero, 26, Heir to Matthew Rivenhall's fortune. Lady Elizabeth Ombersley - long-suffering mother to Charles and wife to Lord Ombersley. Lord Ombersley - Charles' father, who spends most of his time at his club. Miss Eugenia Wraxton - Charles' fiancée, daughter of Lord Brinklow, a viscount. Lord Bromford Goldhanger - A Jewish moneylender. The passage with Goldhanger is criticised as anti-semitic, and has been cut from some editions. Cecelia Rivenhall - Charles' sister,"
"returns to the front lines and participates in desperate fighting following the Germans' massive, last-ditch effort to win the war. Soon after the end of the war, Hannay marries Mary Lamington, and the following year they have a son, Peter John Hannay. The boy is named after Hannay's two great friends John Scantlebury Blenkiron (an American businessman and spy who had often helped him) and Peter Pienaar (""Mr Standfast""), an old Boer scout who seems to have been a kind of father-figure to him. The family settles in Mary's old home in the Cotswolds, Fosse Manor, Oxfordshire and Hannay (now"
"One Stirs"") and 50 (""Meetings at the Eye""). He later reappears in book four, ""The Shadow Rising"", in chapter 26 (""The Dedicated""), in a ""ter'angreal"" located in Rhuidean. The Cornish poet Charles Causley, the 1967 winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry wrote a poem titled ""Green Man In The Garden"". In the final years of the 20th century and earliest of the 21st, the appearance of the Green Man proliferated in children's literature. Examples of such novels in which the Green Man is a central character are Bel Mooney's 1997 works ""The Green Man"" and ""Joining the Rainbow"","
"Redgauntlet Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Dumfries, Scotland in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as ""in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott's novels."" It describes the beginnings of a fictional ""third"" Jacobite Rebellion, and includes ""Wandering Willie's Tale"", a famous short story which frequently appears in anthologies. The novel's hero is a young man named Darsie Latimer. Early in the novel he is kidnapped by Hugh Redgauntlet, and taken to a village in Dumfries. Darsie's friend Alan Fairford sets out to rescue him. After"
"belie a cunning and rapacious nature. Rashleigh becomes Frank's nemesis, acting secretly as a Jacobite agent and conniving to plunder Osbaldistone and Tresham to support his political ambitions. Andrew Fairservice: First the gardener at Osbaldistone Hall, then Frank's guide and man-servant in the Highlands, Andrew is a pretentious, superstitious and ostentatiously Protestant Scottish Lowlander, who, along with Baillie Jarvie, provides much of the novel's comic relief. Cowardly and foolish, he becomes an object of irritation and contempt to Frank and Jarvie as the plot progresses. Justice Inglewood: Like Sir Hildebrand, Squire Inglewood is a retired Catholic Cavalier, and lover of"
"to be Steerforth; his death brings grief and shock to both his mother and Miss Dartle. At this point Miss Dartle confesses that she had always loved Steerforth and desired to be his wife; she angrily blames Steerforth's associates (including his mother) for having corrupted him and led him to his demise. James Steerforth James Steerforth is a character in the novel ""David Copperfield"" by Charles Dickens. He is a handsome young man noted for his wit and romantic charm. Though he is well liked by his friends, he proves himself to be lacking in consideration for others. David Copperfield"
"would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."" Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery"
"The Secret Servant (Lyall novel) The Secret Servant is a third person narrative novel by English author Gavin Lyall, first published in 1980, and the first of his series of novels with the character “Harry Maxim” as the protagonist. Former SAS Major Harry Maxim is assigned to Number 10 Downing Street as a special assistant to George Harbinger, private secretary to the Prime Minister, following the suicide of his predecessor with the British Secret Service. Maxim is assigned to protect Professor John White Tyler, Britain's premier military strategist on nuclear weapons policy and famed war hero (as well as an"
"house are his stepmother, the Dowager Lady St Erth, Gervase's younger half-brother Martin, his cousin Theo and his stepmother's young friend, Drusilla Morville, who is on a long-term visit. Gervase had not spent much time at Stanyon as a child; his maternal grandmother had taken him in instead. Lady St Erth and Martin make plain to Gervase that they are disappointed that he has survived the war, as Martin might have inherited instead. Theo, his cousin and acting steward, is therefore the only person at Stanyon with whom he has had much friendly contact. Gervase goes on to get his"
"trick Gawain. He agrees because he knows his wife is secretly in love with Gawain, and hopes to deceive both. Gawain falters in accepting a girdle from her, and the Green Knight's purpose is fulfilled in a small sense. In the end, he acknowledges Gawain's ability and asks to accompany him to Arthur's court. In ""King Arthur and King Cornwall"", the Green Knight again features as Bredbeddle, and is depicted as one of Arthur's knights. He offers to help Arthur fight a mysterious sprite (controlled by the magician, King Cornwall) which has entered his chamber. When physical attacks fail, Bredbeddle"
"King Arthur and King Cornwall ""King Arthur and King Cornwall"" is an English ballad surviving in fragmentary form in the 17th-century Percy Folio manuscript. An Arthurian story, it was collected by Francis James Child as Child Ballad 30. Unlike other Child Ballads, but like the Arthurian ""The Boy and the Mantle"" and ""The Marriage of Sir Gawain"", it is not a folk ballad but a professional minstrel's song. It is notable for containing the Green Knight, a character known from the medieval poems ""The Greene Knight"" and the more famous ""Sir Gawain and the Green Knight""; he appears as ""Bredbeddle"","
"He is re-united with Hannay by chance at a harbour on the Danube, on the way to Constantinople and Turkey. Near the end of the novel ""Mr Standfast"", Pienaar - who joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 and become something of an ""ace"" and a hero to the younger pilots although modest and self-effacing as a man, is killed in an aerial collision during an heroic battle with the German air ace ""Lensch"" (also portrayed by Buchan as a chivalrous and honourable enemy, for Pienaar met him while in brief captivity previous to this story, and Lensch saw to"
"likely both a tribute to Charles Lindbergh’s ""Spirit of St. Louis"" and an acknowledgement of the iconic status the Gherkin has gained as a symbol that represents the city of London. Johnny Mackintosh Johnny Mackintosh is the fictional hero of a series of books by English novelist Keith Mansfield, published by Quercus Books. The first title in the series, ""Johnny Mackintosh and the Spirit of London"", opens on his thirteenth birthday and finds Johnny living in Halader House, a children’s home in the fictional town of Castle Dudbury, Essex, England. Johnny is portrayed as having blond hair, green eyes (inlaid"
"midst of the confusion. This tale sets the tone for Flashman's proceeding adventures, including the retreat from Kabul, Last Stand at the Battle of Gandamak and the Siege of Jalalabad, in the First Anglo-Afghan War. Despite being captured, tortured and escaping death numerous times, hiding and shirking his duty as much as possible, he comes through it with a hero's reputation ... although his triumph is tempered when he realises his wife might have been unfaithful while he was away. George MacDonald Fraser was a journalist who dreamt of becoming a novelist. He wrote a straight historical novel in the"
"The Gilded Man The Gilded Man (also published as ""Death and the Gilded Man"") is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale. Wealthy art connoisseur Dwight Stanhope, his glamorous wife Christabel and his pretty daughters, sensible Betty and neurotic Eleanor, have invited a couple of guests to their mansion ""Waldemere""; Vincent James, the ""weekend perennial -- charming and a bit thick"" and Nick Wood, an attractive young man about whom little is known. What is"
"the first female he meets. This turns out to be the pretty but orphaned and shy Hero Wantage, who has secretly loved him since they were children, and who now lives with one of his neighbours in the position of Cinderella, complete with Ugly Sisters. The rest of the novel, chronicling the Viscount's gradual transition to maturity and the realisation that the one he really loves is Hero (the ""loving and giving"" child of the title), is told with Miss Heyer's characteristic wit, and features some of her most memorable dialogue, plot twists and characters (such as the fiery but"
"the town. Stumm's men flee, Stumm is killed, and Hannay and Sandy meet up with Pienaar to ride into the city and victory. The book was very popular when published, and was read and enjoyed by Robert Baden-Powell and by the Russian imperial family as they awaited the outcome of the Revolution in 1917. The first chapter of ""Greenmantle"", ""A Mission is Proposed"", was chosen by Graham Greene for his 1957 anthology ""The Spy's Bedside Book"". The book has been adapted for broadcast on BBC Radio 4. It was for instance broadcast on BBC Radio4 Extra in two episodes on"
"a monastery. In the introduction to the novel, Scott discussed the position of the former Jacobites: Most Scottish readers who can count the number of sixty years, must recollect many respected acquaintances of their youth, who, as the established phrase gently worded it, ""out in the Forty-Five."" ... Jacobites were looked on in society as men who had proved their sincerity by sacrificing their interests to their principles; and in well-regulated companies, it was held a piece of ill-breeding to injure their feelings... Magnus Magnusson wrote: Its two young heroes, Alan Fairford and Darsie Latimer (Redgauntlet's nephew), between them reflect"
"his arms immediately after they suffered a bus accident, and that he then saw John Coffey's ghost watching him from an overpass. Paul seems to be all alone, now 104 years old, and wondering how much longer he will live. ""The Green Mile"" won the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel in 1996. In 1997, ""The Green Mile"" was nominated as Best Novel for the British Fantasy Award and the Locus Award. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's ""best-loved novel."" Frank Darabont adapted the novel into a screenplay for a"
"for high treason and crimes against English civilians. Since his death, Wallace has obtained an iconic status far beyond his homeland. He is the protagonist of Blind Harry's 15th-century epic poem ""The Wallace"" and the subject of literary works by Sir Walter Scott and Jane Porter, and of the Academy Award-winning film ""Braveheart"". He was first cousin to Roger de Kirkpatrick. Roger was third cousin to Robert the Bruce. William Wallace was a member of the lesser nobility, but little is definitely known of his family history or even his parentage. Blind Harry's late-15th-century poem gives his father as Sir"
"a traditional adversary of King Arthur, in order to test his court. In ""The Green Knight"" he is transformed by a different woman for the same purpose. In both stories he sends his wife to seduce Gawain as a further test. ""King Arthur and King Cornwall"" portrays him as an exorcist and one of the most powerful knights of Arthur's court. In ""Sir Gawain"", the Green Knight is so called because his skin and clothes are green. The meaning of his greenness has puzzled scholars since the discovery of the poem, who identify him variously as the Green Man, a"